
The Original Building of Augusta College
The First Established Methodist College in the World
Chartered by the Kentucky Legislature, 12-7-1822
This building erected 1825, burned down in 1856.
This item about the college appeared in the Boston Recorder and Telegraph of Jan. 20, 1826.
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The College sat in the block between Bracken and Frankfort Streets, and Third and Water (Riverside) Streets
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Augusta Basketball Team
School Building, 1897
c. 1910
left,
High School, Augusta
center,
Augusta High School
right, Public School, Augusta
(The 1937 Flood came to the center of the
first floor windows)
Augusta High School, 1947
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A brief look at the history of Augusta Schools is here.
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The Augusta Female College, or, after 1863, the Augusta
Male and Female College. The building was erected in the 1850's.
Augusta College Students???
This image is from the Bracken County Historical Society, and is
among
a lot of other old Augusta items. It's presumed to be Augusta. If
you can
identify it for sure, please let us know. You can email us
here.
Dormitory, First Methodist College
in the World, Augusta, Kentucky
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